THE MASTER AND CHAITANYAISM

calls forth a new dawn, a day star in the horizon of our
lives. To find a living and convincing way to the heart
of the mystery, Vijaykrishna began to meditate intensely
on the name of Hari, and immediately the image of
Vishnu was transformed into a deadly spectre, squeaking
and gibbering in a peculiar nasal intonation. The saintly
garb of Narayan Swami now dropped off, and he appeared
in the light of a wizard, a furtive magician, that hectors
people by making the spirit at his command assume the
form of Vishnu, by virtue of his mummery or jargon.
It is for this that Vijaykrishna emphasised, at all times,
the divine name as the sole weapon to ward off enormous
odds in the gladiatorial amphitheatre of life.

From Brindaban Vijaykrishna desired to go to
Hardwar to attend the bathing ceremony called the
Kumbha Mela, the Congress of the Sadhus. Meanwhile,
Yoga Maya Devi, who was a queen among women, in
her uttermost devotion and pristine purity, gave up her
ghost on the thirteenth day of the moon in the month of
Magh at Brindaban. After her last ceremony was over,
Vijaykrishna went to Hardwar in the following month in
1297 B.S. A piece of bone of Yoga Maya Devi's body
was then thrown into the Brahma-Kunda at Hardwar by
her son Yoga-jivan Goswami. Vijaykrishna stayed there
for some time, enjoying the vast assembly of the Sadhus.
He then came to Dacca with his disciples and lived at
the Gandaria Asram. Subsequently, a little temple was
erected there on some bones of Yoga Maya Debi's body.
Vijaykrishna himself arranged for the worship of Nama-
Brahman in that temple in Aswin, 1298 B.S. He was
the exemplar, the path-finder for his disciples, for whom
Nama-Brahman was to be the essential part of their
individual worship. He once advised a Brahmo friend

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